Improve comprehension skills, vocabulary skills, and writing skills while learning about St. Patrick in this nonfiction resource!Included:informational text passage about the life of St. Patrickinformational text passage on why, how, & when we celebrate St. Patrick's Day. Semantic Gradient Activity (shades of meaning strip, 7 sentence strips, vocabulary words, & instructions and lesson plan for implementing.) Several Common Core standards are reviewed including: summarizing, inferences,